Orange is circling all around
the sun moves across my skin
The air tingles my toes
I am still
I am washed over with joy
I am washed over with sorrow
The ocean carries my body away
My body carries my spirit away
My spirit carries everything away
I am away
Possibly my favourite lines of Shakespeare:
Then, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide.
And, mermaid-like a while they held her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
This is a close second:
I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so
To punish me with this, and this with me,
That I must be their scourge and minister.
I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So again good night.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
Funny that my favourite lines come from Hamlet, when The Merchant of Venice is my favourite play.
I'm not sure what that means. Or if there is any meaning. I'm tired of looking for that. It's tiring.
I think I'm going to get perspective instead.
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